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21st-Century Narratives of World History

Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. R. Charles Weller

    1. Department of History, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

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  • Provides concise summaries of world historical narratives

  • Encourages comparative historical critique to enable readers to understand how these global narratives complement and challenge one another

  • Promotes a more nuanced understanding of today’s interconnected, multicultural and globalized world and its shared, if contested, history

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiii
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  3. 21st-Century Narratives of World History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Periodization in World History: Challenges and Opportunities

      • Peter N. Stearns
      Pages 83-109

    3. “Complexity, Energy and Information in Big History and Human History”

      • David Christian
      Pages 111-142

    4. History Beyond Humanity: Between ‘Big’ and ‘Deep’ History

      • Felipe Fernández-Armesto
      Pages 143-167

    5. The Human System: An Introduction

      • Patrick Manning
      Pages 169-196

    6. Social and Cultural World History

      • Merry Wiesner-Hanks
      Pages 197-229

    7. World History as a Single Story

      • Tamim Ansary
      Pages 231-263

    8. Western, Russian, and Islamic Culture in World Civilizational Perspective

      • Tursin Hafizuhli Gabitov
      Pages 265-289

    9. Going Global: Thematic Explorations in World History

      • Candice Goucher
      Pages 291-315

  4. Comparative Historiographical Critiques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-319
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    2. World History and Perspectivity: Between Necessity and Opportunity

      • Gotelind Müller
      Pages 321-328

    3. World Histories in Conversation

      • Leonid Trofimov
      Pages 329-337

    4. Eight World Historians

      • Diego Olstein
      Pages 339-346

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 347-412
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About this book

This book makes a unique and timely contribution to world/global historical studies and related fields. It places essential world historical frameworks by top scholars in the field today in clear, direct relation to and conversation with one other, offering them opportunity to enrich, elucidate and, at times, challenge one another. It thereby aims to: (1) offer world historians opportunity to critically reflect upon and refine their essential interpretational frameworks, (2) facilitate more effective and nuanced teaching and learning in and beyond the classroom, (3) provide accessible world historical contexts for specialized areas of historical as well as other fields of research in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, and (4) promote comparative historiographical critique which (a) helps identify continuing research questions for the field of world history in particular, as well as (b) further global peace and dialogue in relation to varying views of our ever-increasingly interconnected, interdependent, multicultural, and globalized world and its shared though diverse and sometimes contested history.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

    R. Charles Weller

About the editor

R. Charles Weller is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Roots of Contemporary Issues World History & Asia Programs at Washington State University, USA, and a non-residential Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: 21st-Century Narratives of World History

  • Book Subtitle: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

  • Editors: R. Charles Weller

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62078-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62077-0Published: 20 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87228-5Published: 30 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62078-7Published: 06 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXIII, 412

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Historiography and Method, Cultural History

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